Wednesday, 9 May 2012

The Discovery of a Friend

She was just as I had imagined,
her rounded spectacles, her classy selection of colours, her magnificent smile,
when I saw her walking towards me after three years, one month and twenty eight
days, she was just as I imagined. It was three years, one month and twenty
eight days ago that we first met, a truly serendipitous discovery in every sense
of the word. The memories of her lies in the most vibrant colours available in
my mind, these images boast some of the most wonderful memories I will ever
have to cherish. People say a long distance relationship is hard, it may be
true in case of a relation that has a future with a wedding and kid in it but
not for friendship, it can survive some of the harshest conditions that the
nature can throw at it, it can be deceived sometimes but not deceived always,
it may have some dark days but it sure will come around and the friendship will
flourish.

It was on a warm sunny April 12th
way back in 2009 that I met her, we were sitting next to each other in the
examination hall for IIT-JEE, I had wonderful plans for the day and so did god
but it’s not the case that I did anything for either. Half an hour into the
examination I was pretty sure this is not going to happen not with three
answers a zillion random guesses and that’s when she caught my attention. She
was sitting there doing most humorous things in the world, at one point in time
she actually held her hair up and used her question paper for a fan, Oh! God I
wanted to fall to the floor and laugh my heart out. But then she turned around
and it was as if destiny bought us together, a friend for life served in a
platter.

Now if you had by some chance
came from Indiblogger, you must be wondering what in the world does this have
anything to do with the internet, this doubt is sure to rise in any readers
mind who understands that this was submitted under the tag “Internet is fun”.
The ambiguity is because the part where internet played any part is just about
to come up. Those who just lost it here try this link here.

So as I was saying we met for the
first time, but this is not a love story it’s a friendship story so just one
meeting is not going to suffice, we should meet again and we did too( otherwise
there won’t be a story to tell. Would there be?). We left the hall with just a
smile and I had her name and knew where she was from. That night I had the
stupidest idea ever why not Google what I have, then the popular network was
orkut and I searched for her there. I still think what if I had second guessed
it, I would have been really stupid had I not been stupid then, I would have
missed meeting my best friend and would not have even known that. Oh! Yes I
found her on the first try, I send her a friend request and she accepted, we
started talking and we chatted and then orkut became Facebook and then messages
and then calls and now, three long years have passed and thanks to some stupid
decisions and the amazing world of internet I had a friend, not just any friend
my best friend was discovered hence.

When I think about it now it
occurs to me had I there not been there, had there been no Facebook or had
there been no orkut, I would never have had her, never would have got to know
so well a wonderful human being and above all a magnificent and irreplaceable
friend. Isn’t it wonderful what you can find in the internet these days? I tell
you this internet is not all a fairy tale, there are dark corners in the
internet that’s is better not talked about but it’s not an evil place to be,
the vast majority of it is marvelous, the vast majority is about sharing, friendships,
chatting, getting to know and exchanging ideas. Internet sure is fun when you
get discover something marvelous in the tangible web!

"A Friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature."- Ralph Waldo Emerson